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An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...
The foreign ministry in Oslo can’t give a clear answer to whether Norway will ban port access for the two major Russian ...
Yukon gov't says community is no longer on flood watch An evacuation alert for parts of Old Crow, Yukon, has been lifted, ...
In New Zealand’s Parliament, every legislator has the chance to advance a proposed law, no matter how unpopular, thanks to an unusual lottery where bills are selected by random draw ...
The University of Alaska Museum of the North and Alaska Satellite Facility are presenting a new exhibit to showcase how ...
including the risk of river flooding as ice melts. "Recent warm temperatures have melted portions of the ice cover across south central Alaska, causing ice movement and some ice jams," a ...
The project is expected to begin early next year and provide NOAA with high-resolution data from privately managed satellites "to fill observation gaps during Alaska's flood and ice-jam events," the ...
The flooding happened after an ice jam formed in May 2023, sending torrents of water and ice into the site. The water completely swept away three historic buildings, including the Alaska ...
An outburst flood from a meltwater lake on the Mendenhall Glacier, located about 12 miles north of Juneau, Alaska, sent record amounts of water into Mendenhall Lake and down the Mendenhall River ...
Other rivers across Alaska also saw rapid melting and resultant flooding, prompting Governor Mike Dunleavy to declare a state of emergency on May 13. The rapid melting of ice can trigger ice jams ...